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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (68780)	12/26/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

This year, for the first time ever, we did NO after Christmas shopping. And it was GREAT. I figured we (well I really, since "I" do all the shopping) would do this because our minimalist Christmas was such a success. This year our children did not want to clean their rooms enough to get Christmas presents. We told them, we warned them, and yet they did nothing. So on Christmas day each child received two outfits (clothes I would have bought anyway) and one Pokemon key chain each and one video game each. And you know what? My daughter told me it was the best Christmas EVER. My husband wouldn't even let me wrap the presents so they would get the message. We had no tree because they wouldn't help clean up the family room. But it didn't matter. They had a better Christmas than they do when they get all those toys, all wrapped in the pretty paper that has to be cleaned up in giant garbage bags. So the "message" about cleaning their rooms may have been lost but I sure learned something. So next year, even if they DO clean up, we'll have another small Christmas. And no more buying all that after Christmas stuff- we've got enough to last for years and be divvied up among the children when/if they leave home and give THEM enough for Christmas too.